Inclusion

New episode: HR Most Influential Podcast 4.4: Inclusion is the answer to everything

Inclusion – and its potential to help organisations address strategic HR issues like productivity, retention and engagement – is the focus of the latest HR Most Influential Podcast episode, which went...

The HR Most Influential Podcast 4.4: Inclusion is the answer to everything

Aggie Yemurai Mutuma joins the podcast to discuss why inclusion has the potential to address strategic HR issues like productivity, retention and even the bottom line.

Podcast

Maternity leave discrimination case settled for £215k

A former Citibank employee has reportedly accepted £215,000 to settle her discrimination claim, after being overlooked for promotion while on maternity leave.

How can HR better support deaf employees?

After a Labour MP was forced to leave a committee session when her hearing aids ran flat, we asked: how can employers better support staff who have hearing loss, or are deaf?

Google agrees to pay $28m in alleged discrimination case

Google agreed on Tuesday (18 March) to pay $28 million (£21.5 million) to settle a lawsuit alleging the company gave white and Asian employees better pay and career opportunities than employees of...

Health and Wellbeing at Work 2025: Day one round-up

The Health and Wellbeing at Work conference and exhibition returned to Birmingham’s NEC yesterday (11 March) for its 19th year. The HR magazine team is chairing the event's Best Place to Work seminar...

How can HR make internships more accessible?

Creating effective, accessible and inclusive internships can be a knotty challenge. Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey offers advice for employers wanting to attract interns from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Features

Back in style: The rise and rise of employee-led resource groups

Employee-led resource groups are back in vogue. How can inclusion-focused HR leaders use this new popularity to their advantage? Peter Crush reports.

Library employee wins £7,500 for reasonable adjustments fail

A British Library employee has won £7,500 in an employment tribunal after she claimed her workplace was too noisy.

Time, please! Why healthier workplace cultures might not include alcohol

As more and more people reconsider their attitude to alcohol, or give up altogether, Dominic Bernard examines why putting the bottle aside might be increasingly necessary for ensuring healthier...

How will Trump’s anti-DEI policies affect programmes in the UK?

US President Donald Trump used executive orders to scrap his predecessor Joe Biden’s order that all federal agencies have to come up with equity plans. Trump has also ended diversity, equity and...

How can HR be more inclusive to vegans?

Ecotricity, a UK-based green energy business, has made national headlines after it claimed to have opened the UK’s first fully plant-based workplace canteen.

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